Double trouble for family: Four siblings go blind, injection paralyses mum - vanguard

Several years ago when Mercy Okafor Onanwa got married to her hearthrob, Christopher, hopes were high they would live happily thereafter and raise kids that would in turn take care of them in their old age.

The arrival of the first child, Henry, a boy, brought enormous joy to the family. However, trouble began soon after the birth of the second child, Chidie­ bere, a girl, who had what seemed then like a slight sight challenge and the family attributed it to measles which was rampant at the time.

Somebody advised that the child should be taken to the eye hospital in Kano. Chidiebere was taken there. But notwithstanding the parents efforts, the girl went blind. It was the same story for the third child, Uchenna, and two other siblings, Nkechinyere and Kaodilichukwu. “Greater part of my motherhood has been spent taking care of the blind children,” their mother lamented.

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